As we might have expected, Secretary of State Antony Blinken suppressed the findings of two internal reports confirming what was already patently obvious to almost anyone paying attention: Israel deliberately blocked aid shipments to the beleaguered Palestinians trapped in Gaza. Meanwhile, no significant pressure has, to anyone's knowledge, been exerted on the Israeli government to curtail their ongoing genocidal campaign to exterminate the Palestinian population under the pretext of "national security"; apparently Israel's reinvigorated efforts to escalate other conflicts in the Middle East have upstaged their peril. The general consensus being that the wider world, composed as it is of various nations, is in fact significantly less secure than it was at the outset of these machinations, the disconnect between rhetoric and reality on the part of the leaders of the "free world" has scarcely been so stark.
If the task of defending democratic freedoms must now include, in addition to an illegal 57-year occupation followed by innumerable other breaches of international law during that period, inventing endless excuses for mass murder alongside an unprecedented attack on free speech intended to marginalize, discredit, criminalize and ultimately silence all critics, then like Orwell we must finally conclude that the corruption of language is indeed central to the consolidation and maintenance of the power structure.
This time, however, we need not imagine the "boot stamping on a human face -- forever." It's here already: it's on every channel, and it wants your campaign donation.
